1868 in architecture

• April 4 – Eduard van der Nüll hangs himself in disappointment at the public reaction to the design of the Vienna State Opera; August Sicard von Sicardsburg, his fellow architect on the project, dies a few months later of tuberculosis before the theatre is opened. • July 15 – Foundation stone laid for St Colman's Cathedral, Cobh, Ireland, designed by E. W. Pugin and George Ashlin. • Alfred Waterhouse wins the competition for the design of Manchester Town Hall in England. • Henry Hobson Richardson is commissioned to build the Alexander Dallas Bache Monument in Washington, D.C., USA. • The dome of St. Stephen's Basilica in Budapest collapses while under construction. ==Buildings and structures==

Buildings opened • January 9 – Pike's Opera House, New York City, USA. • January 20 – Neues Theater, Leipzig (opera house), Germany. • August 15 – Teatro Giuseppe Verdi, Busseto, Italy. • September 1 – Vienna Künstlerhaus (art gallery), Austria, designed by August Weber. • October 1 – In London, England: • St Pancras railway station train shed, designed by W. H. Barlow (construction of the permanent station buildings and Midland Grand Hotel, designed by George Gilbert Scott, has only just begun). • Bayswater, Gloucester Road and Notting Hill Gate Underground stations. • October 10 – Runcorn Railway Bridge, England. • November 30 – St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, Australia, completed by Edmund Blacket. Buildings completed • Cīrava Palace, Latvia (rebuilt and expanded by Teodor Zeiler). • The Gyeongbokgung of Korea. • Hong Kong Hotel. • Grand Hotel (New York City), USA. • Gilsey's Apollo Hall (theater), New York City, USA. • Chamberlin Iron Front Building, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA. • Halle Saint-Pierre (market), Paris, France • Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester, England, designed by George Butterfield, advised by Florence Nightingale. • Abbey Mills Pumping Stations, London, England, designed by engineer Joseph Bazalgette, Edmund Cooper, and architect Charles Driver. • Ilkeston Town Hall, Derbyshire, England, designed by Richard Charles Sutton. • Spanish Synagogue (Prague), designed by Vojtěch Ignátz Ullmann. • Grønland Church, Christiania, Norway, designed by Wilhelm von Hanno. • Sedgwick House, Cumbria, England, designed by Paley and Austin. • The Logs, Well Road, Hampstead, London, England designed by J.S. Nightingale. • Vinegar warehouse for Hill & Evans, 33–35 Eastcheap in the City of London, designed by Robert Lewis Roumieu. ==Awards==

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Austen Henry Layard. • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: . ==Births==

• February 24 – Alfred Brumwell Thomas, English architect (died 1948) • April 14 – Peter Behrens, German modernist architect and designer (died 1940) • May 13 – Arthur Anderson, Australian architect (died 1942) • June 6 – Benedict Williamson, English architect and Catholic priest (died 1948) • June 7 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer, watercolourist and artist (died 1928) • June 8 – Robert Robinson Taylor, first accredited African-American architect (died 1942) ==Deaths==

• April 4 – Eduard van der Nüll, Viennese architect (born 1812) • May 23 – James Pigott Pritchett, architect of London and York (born 1789) • June 11 – August Sicard von Sicardsburg, Austrian architect (born 1813) • August 3 – Edward Welch, Welsh architect (born 1806) ==References==